The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

We all have both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

— J. K. Rowling, British novelist who is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series., Born 1965

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

— Unknown Source

Every man possesses three characters. That which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.

— Unknown Source

Character [develops] in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832

Character is Destiny.

— Heraclitus, Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire, 535-475 BCE

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want

— Alice Malsenior Walker, U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944

Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.

— Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, French novelist and journalist, 1808-1890

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

— Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968

Character develops in the full current of human life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count; it’s the life in your years.

— Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865
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